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The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest college in Seattle University. Our emphasis is on academic excellence, service to the community, and global engagement. We provide a liberal arts education in the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences. In addition to 42 undergraduate majors and 37 minors, we offer six master's degree programs and one professional advanced degree certificate program.

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Helfgott Examines Copycat CrimeCriminal Justice Chair Jacqueline Helfgott just published an article on copycat crime. She notes growing evidence suggesting that copycat crime is exacerbated by the media.

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Pigott 208: The Alumni Seminars Program will feature members of the Visual Arts and Performing Arts department this spring quarter 2015. The Alumni Seminars are open to any college alums in the Seattle area who would like to have a unique learning experience during six evenings spread across a quarter at Seattle University. This past fall, we sponsored an Alumni Seminar on the topic “Pope Francis I and the Future of the Church,” which drew a group of 25 adults for non-credit seminar presentations and discussions. During the current quarter, 30 adults are attending the winter quarter Alumni Seminar on “How Can We Overcome the Growing Gap between Rich and Poor? Piketty and His Critics.” We are inviting you to consider spending six evenings this spring quarter with six Seattle University Fine Artists who will share their thoughts and illustrations on “What is new in the Fine Arts this year for you?” Some will present some new movements in their field of the fine arts, others will show and interpret some of their own creative work, and others may discuss what is happening in the Seattle arts scene, or other engaging activity. The following faculty who will spend an evening with you include: Ki Gottberg, chair of the Performing Arts Dept and longtime director and writers of plays in Seattle; Francisco Guerrera, painter and member of the Visual Arts Dept; Alex Mouton, also a photographer and painter in Visual Arts; Truong Pham, SJ, in Visual Arts; George Koszulinski, Film Studies; and Naomi Kasumi, Visual Arts, Digital Media.

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM - Pigott Auditorium (PIGT 104): Civil rights leader Whitney Young, Jr. has no national holiday bearing his name. You won't find him in most history books. In fact, few today know his name, much less his accomplishments. But he was at the heart of the civil rights movement an inside man who broke down the barriers that held back African Americans.Young shook the right hands, made the right deals, and opened the doors of opportunity that had been locked tight through the centuries. Unique among black leaders, the one-time executive director of the National Urban League took the fight directly to the powerful white elite, gaining allies in business and government. In the Oval Office, Young advised presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, and guided each along a path toward historic change.The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights follows Young as he shuttles between the streets of Harlem and the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, tying the needs of Main Street to the interests of Wall Street. The film shows the pivotal events of the civil rights era Brown v Board of Education, the March on Washington, and the Vietnam War through the eyes of a man striving to change the established powers in a way no one else could: from within.This calm, purposeful, dapper, and pragmatic man didn't need glory or public credit for his accomplishments. "I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular," he once said. "But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless."This event is free and open to the public.